Word: oklahoma
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...Born in Oklahoma, Roberts had a disarmingly folksy style. He wrote about his grim days as a preacher's son ("I felt quite sure that Jesus lived with us because Mamma and Papa talked to him so much") and a life that had all the hagiographic basics in it, including his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child, and his bloody bout with tuberculosis and miraculous cure. "Son, I am going to heal you," God reportedly told him, "and you are going to take the message...
...people slaughtered at Fort Hood. The long list of red flags you listed should have alerted anyone with a shred of common sense. Drastic changes in policies and procedures should be implemented immediately, or soon the expression "military intelligence" will be interpreted as a contradiction in terms. Raoul Carubelli Oklahoma City...
Smith’s background further distinguishes him from his Harvard peers. “He’s from a cow ranch in Oklahoma, came out as trans, and is studying religion at Harvard,” says Eva B. Rosenberg ’10, Smith’s girlfriend. “There are a lot of contradictions about him in terms of where he came from...
Raoul Carubelli, OKLAHOMA CITY...
When Sergeant Clint Hollibaugh was transferring from Iraq back to Oklahoma, he sat through the obligatory briefings on PTSD with one eye on the clock. "It was the usual stuff: 'Don't kick the cat, don't kill your wife,' " he says. Like many service members, he feared that any confession of mental trauma would delay his homecoming. However mixed up Hollibaugh felt after being the sole survivor of an ambush, he believed that it was nothing that could not be fixed by a burger, a few beers and sex. "Besides," he says, "I thought I was fine." But several...